Caribou Program Research Area: Response to Changing Landscapes

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This suite of projects examines how humans are changing the landscape for caribou, and seeks to provide practical knowledge and tools so that through targeted conservation and restoration, land managers can improve their operations to benefit caribou.

We will set up camera traps in cutblocks and fit deer with GPS collars to see how cutblock characteristics affect their use by deer. Managers can use this to design cutblocks with caribou conservation in mind.

Knowing which areas to conserve and restore requires knowing where high quality habitat patches are, where the connecting movement corridors between them are, and what attributes are common to those areas.